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Drones assist scientists’ discovery of new plant on Kauai cliffs

COURTESY BEN NYBERG / NTBG
                                The National Tropical Botanical Garden has made a new plant species discovery along a cliff face 
of Waimea Canyon. Botanists have named it Schie-
dea waiahuluensis for the region in which it was discovered.

COURTESY BEN NYBERG / NTBG

The National Tropical Botanical Garden has made a new plant species discovery along a cliff face of Waimea Canyon. Botanists have named it Schie- dea waiahuluensis for the region in which it was discovered.